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Psychological thrillerWhere a mood of high tension and excitement is created mainly as the result of psychological drama and dilemma. | |
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RomanceIn its broader, historical sense, ‘romance’ refers to novels where the stories are exaggerated or remote from everyday life. Now it is often more taken to refer to a novel where the fiction centres on one or more love stories. | |
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Science fictionWhere an alternative reality is created, usually in outer space, or on another planet, often involving a high degree of scientific or technical data about that ‘other world’. | |
SettingThe environment and atmosphere in which characters operate. | |
Short storyA length of prose up to approximately 20,000 words in length, most usually of between 1,000 and 5,000 words. | |
SimileA comparison usually using ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g. ‘ The clouds were like cotton wool’. | |
StoryA narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. | |
SyntaxThe grammatical structure in sentences. | |
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murderThe death of a police officer after 35 years of service. He died in the mountains of Wales where he had lived all his life. He had been chasing one man for over 10 years. He knew he had killed three people and he was trying to stop the death of one more young Lady as he did call all young girls. The first death took place in 1959, a young girl did work in an office at the mine pit head at the top of the valley, she had been working there for the last two years since she did leave school. When she did go missing the whole valley did turn out the next morning to walk the hills and mountains look for her. She had vanished into the mists and clouds of the hills never to be found for the next four years. The strange thing was when she was found she still had all her clothes on, the same from the first day she did go missing. | |